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Officers. Robert E. Speer, retiring President, opened the convention: "The last four years, in spite of doctrinal discussions, have witnessed a steady advance in the cooperative action of the churches. . . . There is no difference in view in the churches as to their main and central business of bringing human life under the lordship of Christ...
...Mathews (1912-16), original theologian and famed University of Chicago educator, was representative of the worth which religious thinkers have attached to the Council. Frank Mason North (1916-20), Secretary of a Mission Board, was representative of the unity urge which has come from American missionaries abroad. Robert E. Speer (1920-24), also Secretary of a Mission Board, is regarded as one of the greatest churchmen and pulpit orators of this quarter century. He is perhaps most representative of the church-going public. But most of the Council's work has been done by its General Secretary, Charles...
...Freshman Discussion Club has adopted a constitution and elected the following officers: President, John Speer Donaldson, of Belivue, Pennsylvania; Vice-President and Manager, Donald Randall King Barnes, of New York City; and Secretary Treasurer, Maxwell Davidson Jr., of Lawrence, Long Island...
...Some 40 years ago "Bob" Speer went to Princeton-a poor boy, tall, husky, with massive head and shoulders. He starred in the line of the football eleven, edited the college paper, won the oratorical contests. There is a tradition that his scholastic standing was second only to that of Aaron Burr in the history of the college. He prepared for the ministry, but would not become ordained because he felt that priesthood would limit his influence.* Almost at once he stepped into a world business - Foreign Missions. Most of his life has been spent...
...Although never ordained, he received the degree of "D.D." from the University of Edinburgh in 1910, became "Dr." Speer...